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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28

PROF. GRAY, the electrician, has in
vented machine by which g. man can
sign check /, 900 miles away. This
will be q great convenience for the
boodlers and cashiers who fly to Can
ada. They can leave their plumber
drawing interest on deposit and check
it out as they need it. What they
really need most, however, is some
better check on their going there in
the first place.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28

Mrs. JAMES CLANCY, boarding
house keeper of New Haven, sold every
bit of furniture and carpet in her
house to g. secondhand dealer, and
taking her eldest daughter with her
left the city. When her husband came
home he found the house bare with
the exception of three small children
who were locked in one room. Mr..
Clancy thinks his wife is insane and it
certainly looks as though she was.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28
New Dynamite Gun.

Lieut. E. l.. Sallnski made an official
test of the long range dynamite gun at
Fort La Fayette, New York Bay, on the
10th. in the presence of Secretary Whit
ney and representatives of the NorWe9-
gian, Spanish, French, Danish, SWed-
ish and Japanese governments, Inc
target was an eighty-ton schooner
anchored at a distance of l 15 miles
from the firing point, and when the
exhibition was finished she was reduc-
ed to sliyers that foated awav on the
tide. The gun used was sixty feet lohg,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28
MEN WHO WANT THE EARTH.
Demands of the Socialists in Convention
at Buffalo.

Demands of the Socialists in Convention
at Buffalo.
BUFFALO, n. Y, Sept. 21.-In the So
cialists' congress, this morning, the plat
form committee offered a resolution in
amendment to the following paragraph
in the old platform: THAT the land,
the instruments of production (ma-
chimes, factories, etc., and all the
products of labor become the
common property of the whole
people," SO that all but the
products are common property.
The resolution also favors the substi-
tuition OF cooperative society In place OF
the present economic system. The fol-
lowing was also added to the demands
OF the platform: 1--WE demand assistance
in the formation of the workingmen's
cooperative associations by govern
ment credit and preference of such as
sociations in the awarding of contracts
by the national, state and municipal
governments
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28
lrGr.

Fire at Gravenhurst, Ont, on the 23d,
DESTROYED forty-fve business houses
and thirty-eight dwellings, rendering
fully fifty families homeless. The loss
will aggregate $1,000 %, with small insur-
ance.
Jacob Lorillard's brick works, at Key
rort. n. j., the largest in the United
States, were destroyed by by fire on the
18th. The flames started in the dry
room and soon spread to all parts of the
buildings which were entirely destroyed
with their contents. Loss 100000; no
insurance. The works will be rebuilt.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28
BIG BOON IN JAPAN.
Thirty-fo New Railway Projects in
Half a Year.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. 24.-Consul
Jernigan, at Osaki and Hiago, Japan, in
a report to the secretary of state upon
railroads and railway regulations in
Japan, states that no less than thirty
four new railway projects have been
started within the last six months,
twenty-one of which involve an
aggregate capital of S47 ,O0O,-
600. The existing roads have all
been surveyed and constructed by for
eigners, but the list contains the names
OF no Americans, nor do American me-
chanics or engineers appear to have
any connection with the new projects.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28
Work of a sneak Thief.

The recent disappearance of $23,OOO
from the Union National Bank at Du-
luth turns out to be the work of an
adroit sneak thief, who distracted the
package from the vault while the bank
officers were examining a number OF
checks which had just been presented.
The detectives are about certain that
the money has not yet left the city and
claim to have spotted the guilty parties,
none of whom are connec,ed with the
bank. The loss was discovered within
twenty minutes.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28
The SlbIey Heirs Win.

Judge Hooker has sent in his decision
to the clerk Of the court in the cele-
brated Perrin-Sibley suit, which gives
the Sibley heirs of Rochester, N. Y,
from 100000 to $500, 900 worth of prop
erty, most of which is situated at Mar
shall, Mich. The matter has been in
court in one way and another for twenty
years or more. The Perrin heirs will
aDDeal
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28

A TOPEKA Anarchist by the name
of Boutwell, is said to regret that ne is
not one of tine condemned Anarchists
that are to be hanged in November.
It is pity to disappoint man en-
pertaining any such an idea. Still his
desire can be easily gratifed by emu
lating the deed of the condemned An
archists. The law will be found to be
very accommodating in the matter.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28

A New York paper says that Mrs.
Logan has almost entirely recovered
from the painful accident she recently
sustained. She hopes to complete
arrangements soon for the removal of
her husbands remains to Chicago.
The vault in which they are now
resting in Rock Creek Church Gene.
terry is still guarded by q detail OF
Emitted States soldiers night and day.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28

WHEN it became known that Frank
Medically, who robbed the Saco ban K
of such g. large sum of money, had
been the confidential clerk of the in
stitution on salary OF S. a week un-
til last June, when it was increased to
So, there was g. very large landslide of
public sympathy away from the bank.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28
Long and Short Haul Decision.

At Chicago on the 21st the interstate
railroad commission filed decision or
dering the Central Vermont railroad to
cease charging more for short than for
long hauls. The complaint was made by
the Boston and Albany road which COM
petes with the Central Vermont for De-
troit, Chicago, Milwaukee and other
Western business.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28

ANOTHER batch of four hundred En-
elish, Scandinavian and German Nor.
man immigrants have just arrived
and are on their way to Salt Lake
City. Thus is polygamy being fed
through Castle Garden while it is be-
ing fought in Utah.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28
WIPED OUT BY FIRE.

Twsnty-Se Seven Business Houses IN Flor
ida Town Swept Away by frames.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Sept. Zo..fIfe
broke out in a bakery at SANFORD at |
O'Clock this morning ana oes.royee al
town Two hotels, two wholesale stores,
two oaloons q sash and blind factory
and twenty general stores We're dc
stroved. The damage is estimated N
$500 900, with very little insurance.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28
The American-Oh1nese Bank.

The London Standards correspond
ent at Shanghai says the Ameri-
can Chinese bank syndicate have ac-
copied Ii Hung Changes conditions.
An American off -ial will depart for
China Immediately to complete arrange
ments, The bank will probably be start
ed in Shanghai and Tientsin, and branch
es will be opened in Philadelphia and
London in the spring.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28
A Revolutionary Resolution.

About fifty members Of the Progress
sive Labor party met at New York on
the Esd. Forty dollars was collected for
the relief of the condemned Chicago An
archists and a resolution was adopted
pledging support to every movement for
their relief and in the event of the fail
ure of all other methods, they were to
arm themselves and rescue them by
force.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28
FOUR sMUGGLERs SLAIN.
Desperate Encounter Between 0fficers
and Texas Outlaws.

desperate encounter BeCWeeA VHcerB
and Texas Outlaws.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, Sept. 24.-News,
was received here to-day that the posse
sent from the United States marshaPs
office to Rio Grande City, few days
ago, to capture a gang of smugglers who
were encamped about fifty miles from
Laredo, found the camp in the brush
near the river. A demand for sur
render was answered by volley from
Winchesters. A battle ensued, resulting
in the death of four of the smugglers
and the capture of the camp and num-
Der OF horses. The living smugglers es-
capped by stampeding the horses and fol-
lowing through the gap in the line tax
ing refuge on the Mexican side. None
of the officers were hurt.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28
BUILT FOR THE POOR.
The Stanford University to be for Per.
sons Without Means

TACOMA, w. t., Sept. 24-Senator
Leland Stanford, Charles F. Croker,
second vice-president of the Southern
Pacific, Manager Antowne and Mrs.
Stanford left Tacoma this morning for
Portland In an interview Senator
Stanford said relative to the new uni
versity: sit will be built with sole
regard to the poor; no rich mans son
or daughter will want to come there.
The houses for the comfort and conven-
fence of my guests will be plain but
substantial. and due regard will be had
to every want of the pupils. but nothing
ornate or grand will be allowed"
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28
TWENTY YEA RS EN JAIk.
A Kansas Penalty for Violating the State
Prohibition Law.

a Kansas Penalty Tor VlO1atlng inc 5tsste
Prohibition Law.
WICHITA, Kas., Sept. 23.-J. A. Stew
art, of this city, has been sentenced to
seventeen years and four months In the
county jail and fined 81, 800, with costs OF
prosecution, for the yiolationof the pro-
hioition law. He was clerk in Che West
End drug store and pleaded guilty to an
Indictment containing $3.50 counts. as at
the same time did Herman, the preprie-
tor of the place. The latter cannot be
found, and it is thought that he has left
the country. The punishment imposed
upon Stewart is the heaviest ever given
in the state for violation of the liquor
lows
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28
CRUSHED A GHOSTS SKULL.
A Georgia Man Kills His Brother, VIII.
Attempts to brighten Him.

Attempts to Frig hten HIM.
ATLANTA, Ga, Sept. 23.-Near Mazep-
pa, in Milton County, there lives q
family named Outrey, which includes
two brothers, Calvin and Robert. They
were both smitten with Miss Sallie
Rogers. Last night there were services
at Cold Spring Church, which were at
tended by all these persons.
Robert reached the lady's side
first on the close of the
services and was accepted as escort.
Calvin got sheet, entered a graveyard,
and played ghost. He got on hands and
feet and moved toward the couple, ut
tering dismal cries. Robert looked at
it minute, and picking mp a stone.
struck the ghost in the forehead. crush
ing in its skull. The young -nan is dy-
ing.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28
MACKENZIE TOO sANGUENE.

German Physicians Aver That the Crown
Prince is Not Out OF Danger.
VIENNA, Sept. 21.-Dr. Mackenzie j.
at Milan inquiring as to suitable health.
resort for Crown Prince Frederick Will
lam, of Germany, Toblach having be-
come too cold. A Berlin correspondent
OF the Medical News comments on the
annoyance telt by the German doctors
because of their being ignored since the
Crown Princes visit to Scotland. The
German doctors, the writer says, aver
that DR.. Mackenzie is far too sanguine
regarding the Princes condition.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28
Creating a Salt Monopolx.

A mammoth salt company, composed
of all the large salt manufacturers in the
United States, is about to be formed. It
will be known as the National Salt union
and will be the headquarters for the salt
supply of the whole country. Delegates
from salt firms in Ohio, Michigan and
New York met in Pittsburg within the
past week and made arrangements for a
union
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28

Of eight-inch bore, carrying proiectile
containing fifty pounds of dynamite
with an initial force of 100 pounds to
the square inch. Six shots were fired
two OF which struck the vessel, tearing
her all to pieces. Lieut.. ZaIinski was
congratulated by Secretary Whitney.
Another gun is being constructed wbic,
will hurl 900 pounds of dynamite at a
charge
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28
Children Killed ,by a Homb.

Three children of farmer, named
Gadbout. while playing on the Island of
Orleans near Quebec, on the oath,
where the artillery competition WAS
held recently. found q shell and lit the
fuse. The bomb exploded and killed
them all instantly.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28
Great Parade OF Chinese.

At San Fran cisco, CAL, on the 23d,
Chinese residents had remarkable
parade in honor of the great idol known
as Tan Wong, recently brought from
China. The parade was of Oriental
magniticence One of the features of
the parade besides Tan Wong was a
huge artificial dragon, 175 feet long and
the most gorgeous ever seen in Amer
ica
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28

A BROAD and beautiful avenue is to
be built from Washington to Mt. Yer
non. It should be equipped with the
cheapest and most comfortable means
of transportation and directly con-
nected with the capitol. Washington
statesmen have much to learn from
the contemplation of Mt. Vernon and
it's late distinguished tenant.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28
THE LATEST NEWS
Didn't Like i4is Sermon.

On the 18th the ,1ev. M. Higgins, a
Congregational minister at Calumet,
Mich, preached q strong sermon against
awbreakers. About midnight the win
dows IN his residence were smashed by
large stones. The persons who com
mitted the outrage are unknown,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28

EDWARD D. ADAMS, d New York
banker, has raised 100000 by sub
scription which he hopes to make
100000, for the erection of a large
building and gallery for instruction in
art and the founding of an American
salon. It is worthy undertaking,
and ought to succeed.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28
BY q Belfast Mob.

In Belfast, on the night of the Oath, a
mob wrecked an inn and pelted the
police with stones. The police were re-
inforced and order was restored. Sew
eral league meetings in Clare were dis
persed by the police without resistance.
Priests secured an order on the police
removing their swords. Stones were af-
forwards thrown, injuring the police.
Capt. Plunkett commanded the police
and restored order.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28
The Rtpnblifa't
WATERFOWL. wLsCONETN.

DIR. HAMMOND, has just examined
jaw Gould's head, and he pronounces
it all right. Wall Street has, on num-
Der of occasions, sadly admitted the
unouestionable truth of this fact.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28
The Fire En.ineers

The fifteenth annual session Of the
National Association of Fire Engineers
opened at Atlanta, Ga, on the 2eth.
President Steere delivered his annual
address in which he said the fire losses
of the year bad been unprecedented,
and he estimated the aggregate at $780,,
OOO 600
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28

P. A. Crosby, treasurer of the Lasters'
Protective Union fair, at Dover, N. H.. a
married man, has absconded with the
fair receipts, amounting to $4,000. and is
accompanied by Mrs. Emma Sawyer
Lord. He leaves an aged mother, a
ibroken-hearted wife and two children.
all hOmalnSs
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28

IT is not in vicious Illinois or Indi-
ana or Michigan, but in virtuous
Rhode Island that the laxity of the
divorce law is most strikingly mani
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-09-28
CUT OFF BY FLAMES.
Eight Firemen Imprisoned in the Upper
Story of Burning Building.

ALBANY, N. Y, Sept. 21.-Capron &
Woolverton's -four mill of this city burn
ed this morning with 100000 bushels of
grain. Loss. $3.50, 900; insurance, $780,
600. Eight fremen who were caught in
an upper story of the burning building,
were rescued with difficulty. The lad
ders proving too short, they were lifted
on the shoulders Of policemen and the
men dropped to them from windows.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-06-22

BosToN, June lS special to The Post
has this statement regarding the removal of
Professor Eghert G. Smyth of Andover, and
the acquitta of Professor Churchill, Tucker
Harris and Hincks on purely technical
ground:
President Seclye voted to acquit Professor
Smyth The other two visitors, therefore
are wholly responsible for the act. 1t
should be kept i'll mind that the five pro
fessors, were urraigned as eltors of The
Andover Review and authors of the book
known as "frogressve Orthodoxy The
charges We're the same against each. and
the proof resented was citations from this
book, of which these professors are the
ioint authors. They were all i'll the same
boat.
Contemporaneously with this decision of
the visitors the trustees have issued an
opinion based on the same facts, and ably
sustain the professors. This document is
very strong and is signed by all the trustees
except DR.. Wellman,
At the trial numerous exceptions
were taken by the respondents, and no
doubt the case will be carried up to the
supreme cont.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-06-22

New LONDON, Conn, June 20-The
three grand old naval ruins the Ossipee,
Richmond and Galena, will sail out of this
harbor this morning and point their an
cient prows toward the east. They have
orders to stop at Gardiner bay and fire
off some of the mouldy ammunition which
has been stored i'll their holds for the past
twenty years. Thence they proceed to
Portland, and from there make cruise to
the fishing grounds to keep an eye on the
Bluenoses who are making it uncomfortable
for the Yankee fishermen who cross the
marine dead line. About 200 of the jack
tars were given leave of absence yester-
day and they walked all the way from the
coasting station to Groton ferry, whence
they crossed over to New London and
stirred up a pot of very red paint. 1t is
extremely easy to buy vermilion tints in
New London on Sunday, owing to the
prohib tory law
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-06-22

Gen. Farron, minister Of war, projects an
increase OF the French army.
The will OF Jesse Hoyt was sustained 10y
the supreme court of New York
The state board of arbitration has decided
not 10 investigate the Worcester county
lockout.
Nine Fursch- Madi has obtained "A verdict
for SOB against Charles f. Locke, man
ager Of the American Opera company, for
balance of salary due.
Information at st Louis is to the elect
that the supreme court will affirm the judg
ment against the murderer of Preller and
sentence HIM to execution.
The audience at Canon Wilberforces lee
ture at New York were induced by DR.. Tai
mage to wave their handkcrchlefs at him
in Christian salutationn
Henry Y. Lesley, the defaulting secre-
tary aud j. A. l.. Wilson, the defauting
treasurer of the Chesapeake 4 Delaware
Canal company, have been captured
Mcdonald and McGarigle, the Chicago
boodlers, have been convicted and sentenced
to three years in the penitentiary About
thirty other, are likely to follow them.
During an election at Waterford Hun
,
Croatian electors. In the conflict five of the
citizens were shot dead The election was
suspended.
Bacralaureate addresses were delivered
at Harvard by Professor F. G.. Peabody, at
Bowdoin by President Hyde, at Smith by
President Scelye, ut the Agricultural by
Rev. Charles s. Walker, at Princeton by
President McCosh.
Mrs Cleveland is in Aurora, n. Y, to
attend the commencement exercises of
Wells college, where she was student.
She attended reception to the senior class,
and is represented as entering into the mer-
rimcnt with girlish glee,
\ Scranton, Penn, dispatch says that
Miss Anna Dickinson has been in precari-
Gus condition and narrowly escaped death
She is now thought to have a good chance
for recovery. The crisis followed two
years period of gradually increasing sick
ness.
man standing on one of the bridges
that connect the Three Sisters islands at
Niagara Falls was seen to take Off his coat
and hat and jump into the water. His body
sank and passed over the Horseshoe falls
Papers in the mans pocket indicate that he
is F. Tligg of Washington
The board of examiners which is to CON
duct the examinations at Dartmouth college
from Tuesday to Friday is made up of
Alfred z Gage, of Boston, George W.
Bingham, of Derry, Professor Isaac Walker,
of Pembroke, Rev George w Phillips of
Burlington Vt, and Horace Wait, OF Jer-
sey City, n. j.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-06-22
RETURN OF REBEL FLAGS.



Congress Has the Power.
WASHINGTON, June 1.-THE following
letter has been sent to the secretary Of war
by the president in regard to the DISPOSE
tion of the flags captured by the Union
forces during the late war:
Il have to day considered with more care
than when the subject was orally pre-
sented to me, the action of your department
directing letters to he addressed to the gov
ernors of all the states offering to return,
if desired, to the loyal states, the Union
flags captured during the war of the re
bellion by the Confederate forces and after
ward recovered by government troops; and
TO the Confederate states the flags captured
by the Union forces. all of which for many
years have been packed in boxes and stored
in the cellar and attic of the war depart
ment ! am of the opinion that the return
of the flags in the manner thus contem-
plated is not authorized by existing law,
nor justified as an executive act | request,
therefore, that no further steps be taken in
the matter except to Examine and inventory
these flags and adopt proper measures for
their preservation. Any direction as 10 the
final disposition Of them should originate
with congress. Yours truly,
GROVER CLEVELAND
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-06-22
TIME TO STOP.
A LETTER FROM POWDERLY ON
THE SHOEMAkERS' STRIFE.

Pride should Not Stand In the Way OF
au Agreement Between the Proprietors
and Employees of the Worcester Comfy
Shoe Shops.
WORCESTER, Mass, June 1s-A letter
has been received from T. V. Powderly in
which he SAYS. Il believe the time is at
hand to stop the strife now being waged be
tween tho manufacturers and workmen in
Worcester county. Those who are engaged
in the struggle should not allow pride to
stand in the way of a settlement. | advise
that both sides come together, effect com
promise of the difficulty, and make an
agreement never to p.rmit such a state OF
affairs to exist there again.
The Somerset reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1868-1909, 1887-06-22
A MURDERED WOMAN



BRATTLEboRo Vt, June 20-The body
of Helen A. Burt. about 30 years old was
found in the Connecticut river, opposite the
depot, by Rinaldo Hiseock. Foul play was
plainly evident from a large cash in the
head and the victim skirts being drawn
up and tied over her head The woman has
been staying in the families of William
Trendall, an Englishman, and John Sugland,
negro, the latter of whom bears a hard
reputation. She was last seen, it is said, in
Sugland's company on the railroad track
last Friday. The testimony of Sugland $
children shows that he and the deceased had
had an alteration some day last week, when
he knocked her over table. Her pocket
book was found in her stocking, and her
jewelry was intact. Sugland is wood
chopper, and has been in this vicinity about
ten years The body was taken in charge
by the Brattlcl ORC authorities, who are
taking steps to apprehend the suspected
murderer